Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

Just like the waves of the ocean, my heart is singing the song of endless, eternal, sadness, joy, and love.

Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever doesn't have, even what he has will be taken from him

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies